{"id":142665,"date":"2022-11-29T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/that-was-a-rage-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T07:32:24","slug":"that-was-a-rage-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/that-was-a-rage-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThat Was A Rage\u201d \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tAn emotional Will Smith revisited Oscar night with Trevor Noah on Monday by explaining what drove him to slap Chris Rock in front of millions of viewers. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI was gone, dude,\u201d Smith told Noah on The Daily Show<\/em>. \u201cThat was a rage that had been bottled for a really long time.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tSmith, who was on the Comedy Central show to promote his latest movie Emancipation<\/em>, shared a heartfelt story about coming home from winning his first Academy Award and having to explain his behavior to his 9-year-old nephew. \u201cHe’s the sweetest little boy. He stayed up late to see his Uncle Will. We are sitting in the kitchen, he’s on my lap holding the Oscar, [and he asked] ‘why did you hit that man, Uncle Will?’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWhy you trying to Oprah me?\u201d Smith remembered thinking. \u201cI was like, it was a mess. I don’t want to go too far into it to give people more to misunderstand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tEarlier in the discussion, Smith tried to explain his behavior by reminding people \u201cyou just never know what somebody is going through.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI was going through something that night,\u201d he said, while turning to address the Daily Show <\/em>audience. \u201cThat doesn’t justify my behavior at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWe just gotta be nice to each other, man,\u201d Smith continued, gripping a tissue. \u201cIt’s hard. I guess the thing that was most painful for me, is I took my heart and made it hard for other people. I understood the idea when they say hurt people hurt people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tHe also talked about how he became \u201cthe little boy that watched his father beat up his mother, all of that bubbled up in that moment. That’s not who I want to be. \u201c<\/p>\n

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\tNoah tried several times to stick up for Smith saying \u201ceverybody can make a mistake\u201d and how the actor’s actions on Oscar night were \u201cnot who you are.\u201d Noah also called out the \u201crelentlessly shitty\u201d press that he and his wife Jada Pinkett have endured. <\/p>\n

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\tIt brought Smith to tears. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI understand how shocking it was to people,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n

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\tThis was the first time Smith addressed the incident on a late night talk show. In a recent conversation with Fox 5’s Good Day DC <\/em>journalist Kevin McCarthy, Smith said he realizes that some people may not want to see his new movie after what happened at the Oscars.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI completely understand \u2014 if someone is not ready, I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready,\u201d Smith told McCarthy. \u201cMy deepest concern is my team \u2013 Antoine [Fuqua] has done what I think is the greatest work of his entire career. The people on this team have done some of the best work of their entire careers, and my deepest hope is that my actions don’t penalize my team. At this point, that’s what I’m working for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEmancipation<\/em> opens in theaters December 2 and will stream on Apple TV+ beginning December 9.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n